Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platform

So we saw the opportunity to add more funding and also start getting into a tight relationship with both of these players.” The original plan for Contentful was to focus almost explicitly on mobile. As it turns out, though, the company’s customers also wanted to use the service to handle its web-based applications and these days, Contentful happily supports both. “We started with native mobile application, but even the websites nowadays are often an application.” In its early days, Contentful focused only on developers. As of now, the company doesn’t have any plans for offering a self-hosted version, though Konietzke noted that he does occasionally get requests for this. “And that’s what we’re beginning to focus on and where we’re building a lot of capabilities around that.” In addition, support for GraphQL and an expanded rich text editing experience is coming up.